10. English Geologists, Hutton, Smith, Lyell.
We may throw in the astronomers if the thing goes.
Green of Leeds will undertake 10; Dyer, with Hooker's aid, 9; M.
Foster eight and I look to you for 7.
Tyndall has half promised to do Boyle, and I hope he will. Clerk-Maxwell can't undertake Newton, and hints X. But I won't have X.—he is too much of a bolter to go into the tandem. I am thinking of asking Moulton, who is strongly recommended by Spottiswoode, and is a very able fellow, likely to put his strength into it.
Do you know anything about Chrystal of St. Andrews? [Now Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh.] I forget whether I asked you before. From all I hear of him I expect he would do Number 6 very well. I have written to Adamson by this post.
I shall get off with Harvey and Darwin to my share.
Ever yours very faithfully,
T.H. Huxley.
4 Marlborough Place, N.W., December 26, 1878.
My dear Roscoe,